Echoed in My Bones was inspired by the author's experiences as an inner-city psychotherapist. It is the story of bi-racial twin sisters, Jasmine and Tessa, who are given up for adoption and raised in neighboring New Jersey towns but worlds apart. Their mother, Lakisha, only sixteen at the time of their birth, has no idea that eighteen years later she'll be desperate for their help to save her son's life. Echoed in My Bones is a coming-of-age novel rife with loss, hidden truths, and, ultimately, redemption. After Lakisha surrenders her newborns, darker-skinned Jasmine scrapes through a harrowing childhood in the foster-care system, while lighter-skinned Tessa struggles with her perfectionist mother and the pressures of being in a high-achieving family of physicians and attorneys. Neither Jasmine nor Tessa know of each other's existence until Lakisha's son is diagnosed with leukemia. In order to find a compatible bone-marrow donor, Lakisha is forced to choose between keeping her traumatic history hidden from her longtime boyfriend, or searching for the daughters she abandoned, a decision that could change everything. How Lakisha, Jasmine, and Tessa come together again is the story of the mistakes that threaten to destroy us and the injuries that echo in our bones; the ones that only love can heal.